"The closest thing I could think of that men go through is like a prisoner of war being tortured, and then coming back from that experience. It's traumatic and grounding and makes you commit to the world. Also, because you want all of these things for your kid."

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Source : Source: therumpus.net

Larkin Grimm

#War Quotes #Kids Quotes #Men Quotes

“The Syrian regime is helping the insurgency in Iraq and allowing all kinds of militants to come in and out, and go to Iraq to attack random soldiers and innocent people.”
“When you grow up in a totally segregated society, where everybody around you believes that segregation is proper, you have a hard time. You can't believe how much it's a part of your thinking.”
“Sometimes I read the same books over and over and over. What's great about books is that the stuff inside doesn't change. People say you can't judge a book by its cover but that's not true because it says right on the cover what's inside. And no matter how many times you read that book the words and pictures don't change. You can open and close books a million times and they stay the same. They look the same. They say the same words. The charts and pictures are the same colors. Books are not like people. Books are safe.”

Source : Kathryn Erskine (2010). “Mockingbird”, p.21, Penguin
“Rarely do great beauty and great virtue dwell together.”
“Nothing important comes with instructions.”

Source : James Richardson (2010). “By the Numbers”, p.33, Copper Canyon Press
“Precious attribute of woe-worn humanity! that can snatch ecstatic emotion, even from under the very share and harrow, that ruthlessly ploughs up and lays waste every hope.”
“Harmony is something we must have with others, but it must start inside us first.”
“I have a bad reputation for being temperamental.”

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